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The scope of Pro-Palestine activism continues to widen in the U.S. Radical writer Paul Street noticed a distinct difference to the April 15th call for a “Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine” in the United States. From blockading highways in major U.S. cities to targeting weapons and
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As new laws to regulate the gambling industry are imminent, Dave Murphy explains how the industry and its super-profits are built on ensuring addiction remains prevalent. “The casino is highly addictive — the online casino — like slots are the crack cocaine of gambling.” Stewart Kenny, Founder and Former CEO Paddy
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Finally, after campaigning for more than four decades, the families of those that didn’t come home from the Stardust disaster have official acceptance of what was known from the start – their family members were unlawfully killed. Here Kieran Allen explains why it took 43 years for the state to
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After many years of gestation, the Vatican declaration on human dignity seeks to justify its opposition not just to trans people but a range of progressive changes, as Kieran Allen argues here. The Vatican issued a document earlier this month which condemns trans people. Called Infinite Dignity, it is authored
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The Irish Government is gearing up to have Ireland opt into the new EU Asylum and Migration Pact. Niaṁ Ní Mháille explains the pact and the grave consequences it is likely to have on those seeking asylum. On 27 March 2024, the Department of Justice announced that Minister Helen McEntee
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Joe Allen explains how the anti-war movement in the US is using the Democratic Primary elections to pressure the Biden administration into withdrawing its support for Israel’s genocide. Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman based in San Antonio, Texas stood outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin assesses Leo’s legacy and where we go from here. A day after Leo Varadkar’s unexpected resignation, the hagiography around him is already being constructed. “Clear-eyed, decisive politician without the common touch”, reads Harry McGee’s headline in the Irish Times. His coalition partners have
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A ballot for a new pay deal for public sector workers is currently under way. Mark Kerins argues that workers should reject the deal as it comes far short of inflation and will prevent them from taking industrial action for the duration of the agreement. Workers in public sector unions
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A few short years after a popular revolution in Sudan, democracy has been crushed and a bloody civil war is now being waged by rival military factions. Alan Sheeran explains the background to the war. There is a reason the current ongoing civil war in Sudan is being referred to
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Local elections will take place in Ireland later this year. Finbar Lynch spoke to People Before Profit Cllr. Hazel de Nortúin about her experience on Dublin City Council and what socialists can achieve at local council. Finbar Lynch: What first politicised you? Hazel De Nortúin: When Bríd (Smith, TD) was
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As the US presidential election begins to gather steam, Joe Allen looks at the far right threat and the dangerous game being played by the Democrats. Allen asks if Genocide Joe has the support to win or whether a new left alternative should take their place instead. During the first
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On Tuesday 23 January the Ram Mundir temple, built on the ruins of the destroyed Babri Masjid Mosque, was opened to the public for the first time. Shifana Niyas explains how the supremacist Hindutva movement that destroyed the mosque in 1992 is making life increasingly dangerous for Muslims and other